Boston – The Awards Committee of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects recently announced the winners of the 2018 BSLA Design Awards Program. From over 100 entries, 19 projects were selected to recognize excellence in the diverse practices of landscape architecture.

Christin Hu from Harvard Graduate School of Design for “Futurama: (De)Constructing the Adaptive City”

Xiwei Shen from Harvard Graduate School of Design for “Play with Power”

Partners HealthCare Administrative Campus/ photo Kyle Caldwell

Eda U. Gerstacker Grove/ photo Diana Cheren Nygren

Duke West Campus Student Life Precinct/ photo James Ewing

Fisher Hill Reservoir Park/ photo KMDG

Roemer Plaza Suffolk University/ photo Christian Phillips Photography

Berkshire Residence/photo Chuck Choi Photography

Denver Airport Strategic Development Plan/ photo Sasaki

Hoosic River Revitalization -The North Branch/ photo Sasaki

Seaside State Park Master Plan/ photo Sasaki

Central Park/ photo Chuck Choi Photography

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This year’s submissions also show a strong focus on issues of sustainability, climate resilience, and adapting to rising seas, as more public and private entities, from homeowners to institutions to municipalities, start to think differently about the additional work their landscapes can do, and as the role of landscape architecture in dealing with climate change continues to grow.

Awarded projects reflect careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of the cultural and natural environment. The program was open to work by landscape architectural practitioners and professional landscape architecture students based in Massachusetts or Maine (the Boston Society of Landscape Architects’ chapter area), or to projects built in Massachusetts or Maine regardless of where the designers are based.

This is the fourth year in a row with 100 or more submissions. With sites from California to Bangladesh to Brookline, this year’s submissions again reflect the extraordinary reach of the Boston-area design community.

“It’s encouraging to see so much attention to detail in creating spaces for clients, owners, and the public to enjoy,” reports Joseph Strayer, ASLA, BSLA Awards Committee Chair. “There isn’t one singular style of landscape architecture that the jury awarded. The recognized projects are truly a mix — simple and highly detailed, public and private, active and quiet, urban and rural — and celebrate the unique mix of Boston’s design leadership.”